Example sentences of "we used to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the old days , we used to be able to fund the house from farm income . |
| 32 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 33 | and th we used to be visited by some of their people |
| 34 | We used to be glad to put our hands underneath the cape onto the Bull 's Eye for a little warmth . |
| 35 | Oh we used to er we used we used to at sc we used to be at school until we were eleven years old . |
| 36 | We used to be good enemies , that great prince and I , but somehow the enmity 's grown cool of late . |
| 37 | As we work , we can look out of the window now and then and see the students doing physical exercises and practising sports for the sports day on Monday — they 're very keen on physical jerks here , and at Peking we used to be woken up at 7 a.m. to find the Chinese staff doing P.E . |
| 38 | that , and , and , I mean it 's probably better for George to do what he wants to do , rather to do what he do n't want to do because we used to be in the same predicament when we were doing cabaret , we 'd go down to London on the Saturday , we 'd leave here what about half three , four o'clock , so if we stayed in digs , we 'd be finished work say midnight , we 'd be back in digs for one , then he 'll go up till seven the next night |
| 39 | then it went a bit further and stop , and then we used to be walking up the , but that were it , half a crown |
| 40 | But in those days , in the early days , we used to be lucky to get twenty or thirty did n't we ? |
| 41 | especially when we used to be at factory , because we used to come down Phillip 's yard , did n't |
| 42 | Whereas , we used to be open all day . |
| 43 | And , and , and lets remember that the first big shock that British sportsmen got , the first shaking of the earth which intimated that we were n't so hot at these things as we used to be was in professional sport , it was in football , it was when the Hungarians beat England in nineteen-fifty-six , and the Hungarian army officer Elista Pushkas became erm a world figure because he 'd led the team that had humbled British football might . |
| 44 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |